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Politico (27 November 2024)

By Jamie Dettmer

Former Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has no hope that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump can broker a peace deal.

In a wide-ranging — and pessimistic — interview with POLITICO, Kuleba insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin was in no mood to strike a deal, and said Trump instead risked collapsing Ukrainian front lines if the new U.S. administration starved Kyiv of weapons.

Kuleba also questioned the resolve of Ukraine’s Western partners — particularly Germany, which awaits early elections — and complained that while Russia has managed to find allies such as North Korea to send troops, Kyiv’s allies have been inconsistent and unreliable on arms support.

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